Reduce Motion Sickness with iPhone's New Vehicle Motion Cues Feature
If you feel uncomfortable using your iPhone while riding in a car, try enabling Vehicle Motion Cues. This accessibility feature displays animated dots on the screen edges to help your brain track the vehicle's movement, potentially reducing motion sickness. You can customize the pattern, color, and visibility of these cues or let the iPhone automatically activate them when it detects you are in a moving vehicle.
Vehicle Motion Cues appear as animated dots on the edges of the screen that represent how the vehicle is moving without interfering with what you're doing on iPhone.
- firefoxd
These are the type of problems that are completely invisible to someone who doesn't experience it. I wouldn't have even known it was a problem to solve.
A few years back we played an escape room game online with the whole team. One of the clues was in one of my colleagues "room". All he had to do was read it. "Come one read it man, we can win this." He froze. We all insisted he reads it. He could not read it. We thought he had an internet connection issue. Somehow we managed to escape the room and kept going.
The next day he told me he was embarrassed because he couldn't understand what we were talking about. He could not see the note we were talking about because he is colorblind.
- sssilver
I have no idea how something like this is ideated, then prototyped, then validated, but it does work wonders for me, and I am so grateful it exists.
- Centigonal
I just found out this capability is also available on Macbooks!
This would have saved me a lot of grief during a recent road trip through some mountains.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-motion-setti...
- ascorbic
There was a discussion about this a few weeks ago, where I discovered KineStop which is an app that does the same on Android. I've only tried it a few times but it has worked every time.
- NateEag
There is a nice little app that does this on Android available on F-droid:
- zyz
A related post from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557530
Sharing this here in case anyone wants to check out the discussion there and see how it looks in the Verge's short review.
- avycado13
This feature has helped me so much since i found it. I have kinda bad motion sickness and this has really helped me
- esperent
My Android phone has this too (Vivo). Maybe they all do?
It wasn't well explained what it was for though, I discovered it while messing with the settings and thought it was just a cool random feature to visualize motion. I'm just now learning it's for motion sickness.